Effects of the touchmath program compared to a number line strategy to teach addition facts to middle school students with moderate intellectual disabilities

Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 449-458

  Fletcher, Dale ^a   Boon, Richard T ^a   Cihak, David F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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